SocialEngine PHP 4.9.2 Release

We’re back with another release, SocialEngine PHP 4.9.2! This minor release addresses some issues that were reported by clients in our Github and also that our staff found during further testing. We’ve also included some minor improvements to current features. Please be sure to read the special instructions below before upgrading.

Fixed Issues or Improvements Made:

Fixed issue with privacy for video browse and videos on profile similar to the photo privacy fixed for 4.9.1.

Issue: Some server configurations caused settings files to be deleted upon upgrade. Solution: We improved the upgrade routine to skip any files in the application/settings/ folder. (Improvement #724) **See instructions below for this fix

Improved display of long user profile photos on members home page by using cropped thumbnails. (Improvement #139)

NOTE: Please make sure that you do a complete backup of both files and database before performing this upgrade. Please have the backup performed by your host or a developer if you’re not comfortable with performing it yourself.

**Special upgrade instructions -DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP-

We’ve included a special patch (not necessary for fresh installs) that you can download in step one below, but this patch does involve a couple of vital steps. If these steps are not followed it may appear as if your database has been deleted. This patch addresses an issue with some server configurations but is best for all clients to apply before upgrading. This manual patch is for any version and can be applied by following the steps below.

Upload the unzipped files to your server, where you have SocialEngine installed (in most cases this would be the public_html or httpdocs folder), before upgrading. Make sure you overwrite the original file.

Clear cache.

Follow the standard upgrade procedure to upgrade your site.

You can also browse the complete changelog for more details about the changes and fixes implemented in this version.

We’ve also upgraded Albums, Forums, Music and Videos plugins to 4.9.2.

Thank you all for your help in posting any bugs you may have found! If you find any more issues, please let us know by filing a bug report in our Public Bug Tracker or by contacting us here. Lastly we’d like to encourage you to stay connected with the community.

No, you won’t need to as the patch is in the 4.9.2 photo albums plugin download. Please be sure to follow the special instructions in the blog and apply the new patch mentioned before upgrading as it’s for something else.

As I’m not having that issue on my 4.8.13 or 4.9.2 sites, I cannot say for sure if it would help the issue on your site. We do recommend upgrading to keep up with current code and bug fixes. If you upgrade and find that your mail issue still exists, please feel free to submit a support ticket via your client dashboard so our team can assist. If you don’t have active support, you can also extend support access via your client dashboard.

Hi Donna, I have been working on this this afternoon, only I have limited abilities on such matters. What appears to be the problem is there is no background activities registering at all and emails seem to be stuck in a Que. The last contact was March 15th 2017. Since then, no one has been receiving alerts.

Thank you for reporting this issue. Please note that a link to our Github to report bugs is always in our release blogs so you can see which bugs are reported already and to report those you may find. This makes bug fixing go faster.

As this bug was not reported before, I’ve added it to our internal list to fix. We hope to have it done for our next release.

I disabled that widget and won’t use it until it’s fixed. But there’s another issue I’m experiencing with 4.9.x compared to 4.8.12 and that is selecting for a widget to display on mobile devices or not. It doesn’t work. I am running 4.9.x on PHP 5.3, not sure if that makes a difference but yes, widget mobile display doesn’t work for me.

As far as I know, it’s always been a requirement. That is what I had been told before anyway. Please try with the mobile plugin enabled and if it doesn’t work still, please feel free to either comment in our community or post a bug in our github as the blog comments are not the best place for discussing issues as we don’t respond as quickly and it’s much harder to resolve possible issues here.